Notes from the build

This is the working notebook for wildlifeconservation.ai, a research companion built by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on top of forty years of funded conservation work — more than 23,900 evaluated projects across all fifty states and the U.S. territories.

What you will find here

Posts about how the assistant is built and what it is learning: where the grant record answers a question well, where it does not, and what happens when grantees, funders and agency staff put it to real use. Some posts are technical. Most are not.

We publish when there is something worth saying rather than on a schedule, so expect weeks or months between posts rather than days.

Who writes it

Members of the team building the assistant, posting under their own names. Views in a post are the author's account of the work, not a Foundation policy statement — for NFWF's programs, funding opportunities and official positions, start atnfwf.org.

How it relates to the assistant

The assistant is a separate application atwildlifeconservation.ai, currently invitation only. This blog is public, has no accounts and asks nothing of you. Nothing you read here is behind a sign-in, and nothing you do here creates one.

If you are a partner organisation looking to work with the underlying data, that lives atdata.wildlifeconservation.ai.

Following along

There is a full-text RSS feed. There are no comments — if a post raises a question, the assistant or the Foundation's program staff are better places to take it than a comment box.